Open this marvellous diary of a single year at any page, and you will be struck by some startling moment of import in a life of genius or an epoch-making event.
Open this marvellous diary of a single year at any page, and you will be struck by some startling moment of import in a life of genius or an epoch-making event.
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Constellation Of Genius: 1922: Modernism Year One by Kevin Jackson Hutchinson, £20 Reviewed by Lesley McDowell
You will also be struck by the inevitable comparison with our own times. January 2012, Katie Price opens a supermarket, perhaps? June, and it's another reality TV star ending another fake relationship.
Popular culture doesn't figure large in Kevin Jackson's account of high art in 1922, even though it was prevalent enough for modernists like James Joyce and TS Eliot to make good use of it in their respective works, Ulysses and The Wasteland, both published in this year. We do have Life magazine depicting the "flapper" on its cover, when youth and femininity combined to create a cultural icon, and we see a "plump young English virgin", Alfred Hitchcock, directing his first film, Number Thirteen.
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